Quotes About Insight

What a comfort it was, I thought, to hear someone put into words something that you were on the verge of grasping.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight --We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear.

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.

? ??i có nh?ng chuy?n khi c?n bi?t thì ta không bi?t không hi?u, khi bi?t ???c, hi?u ???c thì ?ã ch?ng còn ?? làm gì n?a. Tuy th? bi?t ???c thì v?n h?n là không...

Together they would seek out those facing difficult decisions and show them outcomes to their choices. "Wait!" she cried, inside the mirror. "What does that mean?

Reason can only work with the experience available to it. Wisdom atrophies if it is not walked on a regular basis.

It is a great thing to see something familiar from an unfamiliar angle for the first time, even if it is because you have been worried and lost for longer than you would have liked.

By most estimates, 70 percent of our sense receptors are located in our eyes. When they are working, they can take over most of the duties of all other senses.

The truth is, Papa," she said, "they are not as quick-brained as you or I and therefore all the important things they ought to have said in the first place come to them later when they are in bed or in their baths.

TODAY I AM GOING TO SEE WHAT THERE IS TO SEE, TO FEEL WHAT THERE IS TO FEEL, AND TO KNOW WHAT THERE IS TO KNOW.

You showed me the side of life I was missing. The memory of it was here in Bell Valley, waiting for me. Now I have to go home and blend the two—right brain, left brain—rational, intuitive." I wasn't sure

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Real intelligence is like a river; the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Don't be satisfied with the surface. Dig deeper; that's where the magic lies.

Proust said we read to know ourselves; there are many more selves to know than can come to light in our ordinary lives. When we and the writer meet on the page our silent communion crosses centuries.

We'd make fewer mistakes if we didn't have to wait for time and distance to give us clarity.

Lo scrittore è obbligato a guardare sotto ogni pietra. Può e dovrebbe rifiutare alcuni comportamenti o scelte nella sua vita personale. Ma non può fare a meno di contemplare l'intero spettro della condizione umana.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

The greater your integrity, the more the many gates of knowledge and the real truths of existence will be revealed.

You lose your sense of perspective when you get too close, and the charm goes.

We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier. . . . Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation.

By doubting we come to inquire and by inquiring we percieve the truth